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President Karolos Papoulias (r) bestows one of Greece's highest awards... |
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Greece on strategic vacation
While Greece's hotel owners have forecast a reduction in tourist arrivals of some 6 percent, the country's eastern neighbor Turkey is seeing a spectacular increase: In the first quarter of 2008, the number of foreign visitors jumped by 15 percent.
The high value of the euro is not the only factor. Another reason is that Greece has failed to build the necessary infrastructure to exploit the wave of foreign visitors that traveled here in the wake of the successful 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. |
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Eurovision conspiracies
A «secret combination» has unhinged the nation. And the nation, well indoctrinated over the years, is now being asked to believe that we, natural-born winners, were granted third place at the frivolous Eurovision Song Contest because of some dastardly scheme to snatch the top spot from us.
«Alliances robbed us of first place,» proclaimed some of the more nationalist-minded TV stations, while in-depth analyses of the event abounded from Eurovision «experts» and veteran songsters, as well, of course, as from the Thessaloniki prefect, who probably believes that he should represent the country next year and finally give Greeks a chance of seeing their dreams come true. |
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